On 01/12/2014 06:11 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
On 01/12/2014 04:47 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
%s seems the trickiest: I think with a bytes argument it should just
insert those bytes (and the padding modifiers should work too), and
for other types it should probably work like %a, so that it works as
expected for numeric values, and with a string argument it will return
the ascii()-variant of its repr(). Examples:
b'%s' % 42 == b'42'
b'%s' % 'x' == b"'x'" (i.e. the three-byte string containing an 'x'
enclosed in single quotes)
I'm not sure about the quotes. Would anyone ever actually want those in the
byte stream?
Perhaps not, but it's a hint that you should probably think about an
encoding. It's symmetric with how '%s' % b'x' returns "b'x'". Think of
it as payback time. :-)
Well that's hardly fair! I never liked the "b'x'" either! ;)
Okay, I can live with that symmetry.
--
~Ethan~
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